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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7570068" data-attributes="member: 6677017">There are no rules, except the rules for how much it costs to copy spells into the book. I played around with some math and ideas on it. I looked at some 3e numbers on things that 5e doesn't have advice for (like how much it might cost to get permission to copy spells from another wizard's spellbook) and compared them to any prices that 3e had that 5e also had, to see what sorts of general cost conversions would make the most sense. I ran some scenarios and analyzed them for information such as when it would be more profitable for a spell merchant to sell you a book, vs sell you the right to copy from one he had, vs sell you a scroll, and what sorts of magical writing economic exchanges would make sense in general, assuming a world where this is a thing, yet wizards are pretty rare (ie, not Eberron).The basic conclusion I came up with is to say that a spellbook's sales price is anywhere between about 25gp/spell level to 50gp/spell level (plus the cost of the physical book), depending on the subjective value of the spells in the book. If you are selling it to a merchant, you are likely to be getting the lower end of that scale, since they'll want to make a profit on reselling it, and they probably already have most of the spells in the book. If you are buying a book, you're probably also buying several spells you already know, unless you want to commission a custom spell collection, which is naturally going to be extra pricey.</blockquote>

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